Adalbert (c. 1000 – 11 November 1048) was the
Duke of Upper Lorraine from 1047 until his death the next year. He was the first son of
Gerhard IV, Count of Metz, and Gisela (Gisella), possibly a daughter of
Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine
Theodoric I (c. 965 – between 11 April 1026 and 12 January 1027) was the count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine from 978 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine, Frederick I and Beatrice of Franc ...
. Gerard's father Adalbert had inherited the county of Metz from his brother
Gerhard of the Moselle.
Gothelo I,
Duke of Lower Lorraine and
Upper Lorraine, died in 1044 and was succeeded by his son
Godfrey III in Upper Lorraine but was refused Lower Lorraine. Irritated, Godfrey rebelled in that same year and devastated his suzerain's lands in Lower Lorraine. He was soon defeated and Adalbert named in his place in Upper Lorraine. Godfrey continued to fight for all Lorraine and Adalbert died in battle against him at Thuin on 11 November 1048. He had no known sons,
[In 1960, Szabolcs de Vajay hypothesized that Adalbert was count of Longwy and father-in-law of William VII of Aquitaine and William I, Count of Burgundy. (''Annales de Bourgogne'', Vol 32 (1960) 258-261), and has been followed in this by Frederick Lewis Weis, ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700'', Line 144-22. However, de Vajay subsequently published an unqualified retraction of his hypothesis in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in ''Onomastioque et Parente dans l'Occident medieval'' (''Prosopographica et Genealogica'', no.3), K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.] and
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor immediately nominated his brother
Gerhard to succeed him.
See also
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Dukes of Lorraine family tree
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Dukes of Upper Lorraine
1000s births
1048 deaths
Military personnel killed in action